The deer calmly waited for the deputies to approach, said Herrin. Deputy Joshua Gordon snapped a cellphone picture, and then, with the deer fully cooperating, removed the bag, said Herrin. No longer bagged and blind, the deer then scampered away.

"I think it wanted that bag off," said Herrin of the normally skittish deer, a miniature subspecies of the white-tailed deer found only in the Lower Keys